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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 23, 2021

ARM talks security, CCA, and Realms

Confidentially speaking, CCA underwhelms

Today ARM released some details about their CCA security architecture and Realms.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 22, 2021

Intel reorgs and ousts an EVP

Navin Shenoy out, software and accelerators in

Shortly after Pat Gelsinger took command of Intel, rumors about changes started to fly.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 22, 2021

AMD clears up FidelityFX Super Resolution details

Don’t tell me you wouldn’t have made that pun

Today you can finally ‘get’ AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution in games and it is a good thing.
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Charlie Demerjian
Jun 1, 2021
1

AMD’s 3D V-Cache takes the advanced packaging lead

Computex 2021: This one is real, most others are not

AMD just vaulted back into the advanced packaging lead last night with their 3D V-Cache technology.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 31, 2021

AMD releases CPUs and GPUs at Computex

Computex 2021: Solid goodies and a twist

AMD has a bunch of goodies at Computex including CPUs, GPUs, and software.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 30, 2021
2

Intel’s honesty shows through at Computex 2021

The more things change….

Intel just doesn’t know how to stop digging and Computex is a shining example of their corporate dishonesty.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 24, 2021

Qualcomm launches the Snapdragon 7c2 compute platform

No reason for anyone to consider it at all

Today Qualcomm introduces the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 platform and SemiAccurate doesn’t get it.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 19, 2021
1

Qualcomm announces modem goodies at their 5G Summit

Features, an SoC, and an M.2 card

Qualcomm is announcing a bunch of modem oriented goodies at their 5G summit today.
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Charlie Demerjian
May 11, 2021

Intel launches 8-core Tiger Lake-H CPUs

More cores, more PCIe4, less GPU

Today Intel releases their 8-core Tiger Lake-H mobile CPU and it doesn’t change the world.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 7, 2021

Intel should not rename their processes

Analysis: An unwinnable fight should not be picked

OregonLive got a scoop about Intel potentially renaming their 7nm process to 5nm to match the marketing schemes from the foundries.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 6, 2021
2

Intel’s Ice Lake-SP finally launches

Update: Second 3rd Gen Xeon-SP with now with overlapping models!

Today Intel is launching 3rd Gen Xeon CPUs once again but this time they are based on Ice Lake-SP silicon.
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Charlie Demerjian
Apr 5, 2021

Intel getting government incentives for foundry

Research: We did some digging and found numbers

During Intel’s unleashed event a few weeks ago, CEO Pat Gelsinger talked about building out fab capacity.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 30, 2021
1

How well does Intel’s Ice Lake-SP perform?

Analysis: We have numbers and they aren’t good

Last August SemiAccurate compared the performance of Intel’s upcoming Ice Lake-SP server to AMD’s Milan with some leaked benchmarks.
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Charlie Demerjian
Mar 24, 2021
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Intel lays out a new direction at Unleashed

Analysis: Foundry attempts, 7nm update, partners, and more

Yesterday a more sedate than usual Pat Gelsinger delivered his vision for the future of Intel.
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Flaming Wafer
Charlie Demerjian
Mar 17, 2021

The CPU industry power shift in one slide

Very subtle in nature, profound in meaning

There was one thing that stood out to SemiAccurate in the Dell server launch, and it was subtle.
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